Free BG

[azurerogue]

TL;DR Making a +9 glorious weapon and a simple set of +7 glorious suit/shoes/muffler will cost around 207 million if you use only enriched elu/ori. If you use no enriched elu/ori it will cost almost 1.5 billion. These numbers are only counting the cost of paying to BG, not materials or refining related costs.

For all those who might be interested.??Let's assume BG stays at 50,000 zeny per participation (unless you were the one who keyed).??Let's also assume that you win 75% of your matches (which is a bit unrealistic since there is no systematized way of assigning team members).??Finally, let's assume that you want a +9 glorious weapon (some day) and a set of +7 glorious armors.??Further, let's assume that you're an older player and have access to unlimited enriched ori and elu...

Using enriched oridecon on relevant upgrades means that you have a 2.916% chance on any given weapon to upgrade from 0 to +9.??That means that on average players will need to purchase 34.29 (we'll call it 34) BG weapons if they want a +9 (where all the best bonuses are).

To get you're simple +7 armor set you have a 32.4% per piece average (let's not get into getting hidden enchants on those armors either).??This is about 3 pieces of each armor on average.

Glorious weapons cost 500 points each.??Glorious suit is 300, glorious shoes/muffler are 250.??

500 x 34 +
300 x 3 +
250 x 3 +
250 x 3
-----------
19400 points

That's assuming you have unlimited enriched ores and you have average luck.??It could get much worse if you're not lucky (and for anyone who has made a +9 of anything before you know how painful this can be).

Assuming you're winning 75% of your matches and losing the other 25% you'll average out to around 4.75 points per BG.??This means to make those awesome PvP weapons/armor (which you'll already need to spend over 500 hours in and/or waiting for BG just to earn) you will spend 207,368,421 zeny.??This only includes the cost of entrance fees.??If you use consumables (which most winning teams do) it will obviously increase substantially.

So to anyone who has ever dreamed of making those sweet +9 BG weapons - pray for luck or pray that there are some serious changes to BG sometime soon...??207 million zeny.??

ADDENDUM:??In case you were wondering, if you don't have any enriched ores and try to accomplish this the average cost is 1,452,631,579 zeny.??That's right, almost 1.5 BILLION zeny (not to mention over 3000 hours in BG).??So make sure you get yourself a few hundred enriched ores - or more!

Yay BG!